Practice makes near-perfect

Ten-year-old Zoe Elias knows exactly how everything in her life is supposed to be. As narrator of A Crooked Kind of Perfect, she spells it out on the first page, with the help of first-time author Linda Urban. Zoe will become a child piano prodigy and perform in Carnegie Hall, dressed in a ball gown, tiara and elbow-length gloves. Zoe's real life is anything but perfect, however. Mom is at her...